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Sketch of the Mosquito shore : including the territory of Poyais, descriptive of the country : with some information as to its productions, the best mode of culture, &c., chiefly indended for the use of settlers

by: Strangeways, Thomas

Publication date: 1822

Topics: Miskito Indians, Paya Indians, Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel

Publisher: Edinburgh : Sold by William Blackwood ; London : T. Caddell

Collection: library_of_congress; americana

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

In the interest of an attempt to establish a permanent settlement under Sir Gregor M'Gregor. Cf. Squier, States of Central America, 1858, p. 82

Sabin

LC copy imperfect: plates wanting

With: Memoir of the Mosquito territory / John Wright. London : J. Hatchard, 1808 -- Some account of the Mosquito territory ... / Robert Hodgson. 2nd ed. Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1822. Bound together subsequent to publication

viii, 355 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : 22 cm

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No copyright page found.

Addeddate: 2013-08-15 15:03:12

Associated-names: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)

Boxid: 0006772012A

Call number: 5862285

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

External-identifier: urn:oclc:record:1157220857

Foldoutcount: 0

Identifier: sketchofmosquito00stra

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t6447jh9d

Identifier_bib: 0006772012A

Lccn: 05009918

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 8.0

Full catalog record: MARCXML

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Reviewer: Farooq_Jahan - - March 9, 2020
Subject: Wrong author attribution

This book is actually not by Thomas Strangeways, but by Gregor MacGregor, a investment fraud who invented the fake country of Poyais to sell fake land. Strangeways has no connection the book.

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